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Education wages: Head of Woodville takes $180K
A look at local districts' top two highest paid
Editor’s Note: The Recorder delivers this fourth installment in a week-long salary series. We’ve also launched a searchable online database for local salary information.
While administering a school of 550 students, former superintendent and principal of the Woodville Elementary Union School District Dondreia Bradley received $25,844.95 more than the superintendent of the largest district in the Porterville area, John Snavely, in 2009.
Bradley, whose salaries cost taxpayers $180,831.95, was overseeing the small district comprised of one school and 98 staff when she announced via a letter to the school board her early retirement April 14, citing personal reasons. She was reportedly paid accrue leave until June 30 when her retirement was scheduled to take effect.
Before leaving, parents had submitted multiple California public records act requests to the district seeking Bradley’s credentials, salary and her contract.
Bradley, who is listed with the last name “Turk” in the school’s district list of salary information sent to The Recorder in response to its own public record act requests for such information, is followed in pay by Clifford Turk.
He was superintendent before Bradley took the helm, and was paid $100,024.50.
In comparison, John Snavely, the superintendent of Porterville Unified School District with 13,500 students and 1,245 staff, received compensation totaling $154,987.
At Alta Vista Elementary School District, which serves grades kindergarten through eighth grade with a 176 member staff, the superintendent was paid $103,636.32.
Salaries of note:
- Kern Community College District Chancellor Sandra V. Serrano $353,135.18
- Highest Paid Porterville College Professor Mary Jo Jordan $159,871
- Highest Paid PUSD Teacher Cynthia Brown $97,358
- Highest Paid Burton Teacher Deborah Hutchinson $82,621.96
Contact Jenna Chandler at 784-5000, Ext. 1050, or jchandler@portervillerecorder.com.
